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The Chronicle-Telegram
Colorful

Elyria, Ohio

Newspaper

'Tuesday, July 7,1981

20 cents

24 pages

Reagan picks
Ariz, woman
for high court
WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Reagan today nominated Judge Sandra D O'Connor of the Arizona Court
of Appeals to become the first
woman justice in the history of the
Supreme Court.
Reagan called this "the most
awesome appointment" that presidents make because justices leave
"footprints on the sands of time."
Reagan said, "I commend her to
you and I urge the Senate's swift
bipartisan confirmation so that as
soon as possible she can take her
place on the Supreme Court"
"As the press has accurately
pointed out," Reagan said, "during
my campaign I made a commitment
to appoint the most qualified woman
I could possibly find.
"THIS IS NOT to say I would
appoint a woman merely to do so I
pledged to appoint a woman who met
the very high standards for Supreme
Court appointees. I have found such a
woman."
After the announcement. Attorney
General William French Smith said
that Mrs. O'Connor had been selected
from a list of about 25 serious
potential candidates.
The nomination of Mrs. O'Connor,
who had been co-chair of Arizona's
state committee to re-elect Richard

O'CONNOR
...her nomination
breaks two centuries of tradition

Nixon, had been championed by Sen

Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz.
MRS. O'CONNOR served as cochairman of Arizona state committee for President Nixon's re-election
The Arizona State Bar Association
has given Mrs. O'Connor high ratings
for her performance as a superior
court judge However, she has not
had a post in the federal iudiciary
system
Mrs O'Connor, 51, received both
her undergraduate and law degree
from Stanford University. She was
third ranked in the 1952 class behind
first-ranked William Rehnquist, now
a Supreme Court justice.
Reagan chose Mrs O'Connor to
succeed the retiring Potter Stewart,
whose decision to leave the high
court opened the first vacancy there
in six years

Keeping her head above water

Elyria summer employee Marlene Schmitz has discovered an unusual
way to beat the heat wearing a water fountain around her neck.
Well, actually, C-T Chief Photographer John Kenney used a
photographic trick, double exposure, to give Miss Schmitz this eye-

Bypass lights synchronization $$ OKd

By BRUCE VERNYI
C-T Staff Writer

Elyria is working towards ending

the stop and go traffic the Route 57
Bypass.
Council Monday approved the
purchase of nearly $30,000 in traffic
signal equipment for the intersections of the Bypass and Route 113
(Lorain Boulevard), Gulf Road, and
Foster Avenue and for the intersections of Gulf Road and Poplar Street,

and Abbe Road and Fairwood Boulevard.

THE EQUIPMENT is to be used
to synchronize the lights along the
Bypass and adjoining streets, said
Warren Pawelson, superintendent of
Elyria's communications department. Pawelson's department is in
charge of all the city's traffic bghis.
"It's going to take us a little while
it's not going to be done this

plans.
His department has targeted the
intersections of Bell Avenue and
Route 57, Route 113, Furnace Street,
and West River Road and the Bypass,
and Foster Avenue and Lorain
Boulevard for synchronization,
Pawelson said.
The inien>eciion of Beli and 57,
113 and the Bypass and Foster and
Lorain {kmlevard are already syn-

summer," Pawelson said of the

chromzed, he said. The other inter-

sections will be added to their

synchronization pattern
The equipment the city will
purchase will extend the synchronization further along the Bypass.
PAWELSON SAID not all the
intersections along the Bypass need
new equipment. The state, because of
the West River Road widening
project, will buy the equipment for
the intersection of West River Road
and the Bypass, he said

catching summer look. The 17-year-old, who was photographed

watering flowers near the Ely Park fountain, is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Schmitz, 919 Middle Ave.

City-fire arbitration
may need double vote
By BRUCE VERNYI
C-T Staff Writer
Elyria council may have to formulate two complex issues for the
November ballot in order for mandatory binding arbitration between the
city and firefighters to become law
City Solicitor George Ferguson

Jury selection begins

in 2nd Marsico trial
ByPAULSCHROEDER
Chronicle-Telegram Bureau

with an alleged drug ring that

operated between Florida and Ohio
and New York and California. Linkous is charged with illegally traveling in interstate commerce in
connection with alleged trips he
made to Canada to disperse proceeds
from the drug ring. Investigators
believe the drug ring, which operated
between June, 1976 and November,
1980, took in about |3 million a
month in the sale of marijuana and
cocaine.
'Attorneys for each defendant have
filed motions seeking dismissal of 11
counts but Holshuh has denied those
requests.
An eighth defendant, Donald Voss,
of Westerville, pleaded guilty last
month to a reduced charge of
conspiracy to distribute marijuana
and was sentenced to 30 months in
prison.

COLUMBUS - Jury selection in

the second trial of Elyrians Richard
Marsico and Raymond Ripley and
four others on drug conspiracy
charges was to begin today in U.S.
District Court,
The first trial ended in a hung jury
May 11. U.S. District Judge John
Holshuh declared a mistrial.
MARSICO IS charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled
drugs, operating a criminal enterprise and illegal interstate commerce.
Ripley is charged only with
conspiracy.
A conviction of continuing a
criminal enterprise carries a mandatory 10-year jail sentence. The
conspiracy charge carries up to 15
yean with eligibility for parole.
Others on trial for a second time
are Jeffrey Linkons, of Westerville,
Mario Adamo and Ectore Garcia, of
Miami, Fla., and Winthrop Hong, of
Dublin, Ohio.
A seventh defendant, Terry Freeman, is also on trial after his case
was dismissed during the first trial.

CHARGES AGAINST Dyana Kellner, also of Westerville, were dismissed at the request of federal
prosecutors.
The 10th defendant, David S.
CauUerwood, of Iowa City, Iowa, has
not been apprehended.
Thefirst trial lasted five weeks.

defendants charged in connection

expect the second trial to be shorter.

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told council Monday night the issue,

slated for the November ballot, is
unconstitutional as presently composed
The dc2? informslly ironed cut
last February in order to avert a
strike, called for voters to decide
w h e t h e r stalemated city-union
negotiations would automatically go
to an arbitrator, whose decision
would be binding on both parties.
Commenting on what he claimed
made the proposal contrary to Ohio's
constitution, Ferguson said, "Council
cannot delegate, through binding
arbitration, its authority to set wages
in a contract "
However, Ferguson continued,
should council want to fulfill its
commitment to place the issue
before voters, it would have to place
a charter amendment on the ballot
The charter amendment would allow
the city to circumvent the state's
constitution
Council would then have to place a
second issue on the ballot, to let
voters decide whether they want
their city to go to mandatory
arbitration on contracts, he said.
"I THINK council will put it on
the November ballot through a
charter amendment and an issue.
They'd have to do it at their next
meeting (on Aug. 17) to get in before
the Aug. 21 deadline (for issues to be
placed on the November ballot),"
Ferguson said

Getting a load off his mind

No excises were deposited in the manure spreader, bat Raymond WUder, of 3IC Union St., Wellington,
managed to drive home his point to city coucil concerning proposed cits in services for Wellington senior
citizens, inciiding reduced hoirs of mini-bos operation and a cnt in working hows for Senior Citizen Services
Coordinator Carol Knapp. Story and more photos onpage B-2. (C-T photo by Bob Bailie)

Suits seek to block Avon-Creek ties

ByDAVTOKNOX
C-T Staff Writer
AVON - Two lawnits, seeking to
block the city from joining the
hiai* French Creek sewer system, have
been filed with the Ohio Supreme
Coot
One nit, filed by Antony J. Coati,
MI except ward 2 coanrilman, seeks to overturn

system with North Ridgeville and

Sheffield village.
THE SECOND SUIT, filed by UK
Concerned Citizens of Avon, Inc.,
charges Lorain County Common
Pleas Jidge Adrian Betlesld and
members of toe county Board of
Elections overstepped their authority
by reflating to place a referendum

cil earner thb ywr Mlhoriimf the the French Creek system on the
city to stare engineering costs for a
f tit sewtr
srits were ftied Thursday by

Cleveland attorney Milton Schulman.

Conti's suit charges the ordinances
were illegally passed on an emergency basis and without required referendum approval by the voters.
"According to the charter you
can't pass this kind of legislation on
emergency," Conti said, noting that
one of the ordinances allows the city
to issue $150,000 in bonds to pay for
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"They may put it on the ballot

because of their commitment to the
firemen, but they probably won't
support it no city official is in
favor of binding arbitration," he
added.
Other Ohio cities, like Lorain,
where voters have approved mandatory arbitration are operating contrary to the state's constitution,
Ferguson said.
Ferguson told council he will give
it a written opinion on the issue.
Joseph Gaughan, the former president of the International Association
of Fire Fighters Local 474, said
Ferguson's opinion of the law could.
be changed by a judge.
"We have to check with our
attorney. Legal opinions are subject
to a judge deciding," Ferguson said.
"If other cities in the state nave it,
T on'

can't

iaw department a so nraca smarter

than any other in the state," Gavghan